Gary Vee
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561 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard Sep 2025
Gary Vee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, and it's very... Look, this is a very... I know a lot of people are listening right now who have never heard of me, so this is going to come across... Pretty aggressive, so I'm hedging, so please bear with me. I hope you see the purely good part of this, not the narcissistic part. But my ambitions are remarkably high. Like I wake up every morning trying to have a statue made of me.
You know? Hashtag goals. You know? And here's why it's worthy of a laugh and why I had to hedge it. One could see that and be like, ugh. Like what is that? I see it as if that is actually your framework, the only way you do that as a human that is not an athlete or a politician is you have to be disproportionately one of the great, nice humans of all time. I'm trying.
I think I was gifted something. It'd be like, if you're LeBron, you don't wake up in the morning at 13 when you realize, oh my God, I could literally be one of the greatest basketball players of all time. You don't kind of then run away from that and say, I'm gonna be a painter.
Look, you're preaching. I think that one of the manifestations of my work that I'm most proud of is if somebody goes and reads Crush It!, which I wrote in 2008 and came out in 2009, we're talking about a decade now, I mean, not only do I fully believe in what you just said, because it was the manifesto, I also ended up being right, because in 2008, it didn't seem possible. There was no podcasts.
There was no Instagram. You're preaching, sister. Here's why. If you never get anywhere close to my level of notoriety or financial rewards, you will be just as happy as me in the process of chasing the practical passion.
I believe you, and I'm saying that to everybody who's listening. I was as happy as I am right now in the basement of my dad's liquor store packing boxes. You truly were. I'm gonna really fuck with you right now. You ready for this? Ready. Happier. I love the process and I love when nobody knows who I am and when I'm underestimated. I love it. I love it. I have a chip on my shoulder.
I'm an underdog. I like being underestimated. The thing that is most difficult in my life right now is that I'm overestimated now. That's interesting. Uh-huh. Now I've crossed the chasm where I could say anything to a certain group of people and they're going to think I could pull it off. Empathy wines may fail. We have a lot of headaches. That's going to be shocking to everybody.
I weirdly want it to happen. Trouty does not. Trouty doesn't because and he shouldn't because this is his first big at bat. He's disproportionately tied into it. I'm not. I don't want the loss. I don't want the scarlet letter. But boy, one of the great ways for people to understand the true me is for me to have a loss in a wine business of all things. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.
I'm not scared of that loss.
Purebred entrepreneurship. This is some, you really hit me in my heart, because you articulated it so well from the other perspective. This is why I hate so many people going into entrepreneur, my friends, I couldn't agree more with you need to go chase your passion, all those things that we just talked about. This is what led me to self-awareness.
Please make sure you're hearing both of us very clearly. You chasing your passion doesn't mean you can't be a number four. Your passion, your happiest place might be the number four for a leader that you blindly believe in for the next 63 years.
I'm not sure D-Rock's ever gonna leave now, whereas two years ago, and two of his teammates who are in the trenches with him were like, hmm, that might be true. They both just shook their head, because I think that might play out, and it may not, and tomorrow he could walk in, that's fine, but where I'm going with that is self-awareness. You're right, I love the dark. I started when I was nine.
You're in fourth grade. Of course you're supposed to go through school. It's also 1983, 84, 85. There is no entrepreneurship. College is the only way to win in our society, right? You want it to be real dark? I've only lived in dark. I've only lived in the unknown.
Everybody thinks that.
What's hard is not doing something that is true to you. And so, I want to really redefine success. I really, really do. I really, like, this is my new thing, which is like, okay, wait a minute, right. Everybody starts with a North Star.
If I, through my sheer will and gifts, can start a true movement of conversation that success needs to be happy and calm, not rich and famous, boy, could I really be good when I do finally get hit by a bus. Like, That has to be the ROI. It has to be. And my big thing is cars and diamonds and wine and sneakers and homes and planes and tickets to big events. Please don't make that your aspiration.
It's fine if you want to. Knock yourself out. But please understand that making $88,000 a year, loving it, will always, always be making 297 hating it. And we don't have that conversation in our culture just yet. And when people just heard follow your passion, where they get stuck, let me give you an example.
If we did this podcast 11 years ago, following your passion, and the other person on the other line says, well my passion is to play video games, there was nothing for him or her to see that they could make enough money to live in society around playing video games.
When I say that now, everybody knows that you can be an esports star, and not only can you live your passion, you can be rich and famous being ninja. I'm familiar.
So what happens is... That's my concern. My concern is that everybody listening right now, follow your passion, do your thing.
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